Unfamiliar Text Exam Resources
Mr Waugh has kindly put together entire exams (question books, resource books, marking schedules and model answers) for you to look through as you begin to prepare. These can be found on his website by …
2.5 Debating Task and Guide
Whiteboard notes on speech writing: Hook: Engage the audience – anecdote, analogy, metaphor, information overload (highest-grossing list). Introduction: must outline the moot, your team’s arguments and how you plan to add to this argument. Rebuttal: …
Protected: Exam Preparation
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Debating: Teams and Moots
The moots and teams for our end of year debates.
Citizen Kane- A Discussion
This is a little late in being posted, sorry! Over the past couple of weeks, students have been exploring the connections across texts from the genre of tragedy. We have looked at a range of …
3.8 Significant Connections
The class is currently working on developing their thoughts for about our entire program of learning for this year. They are now investigating the features of the genre across four texts. Their findings will be …
The Gladiator Lecture
Below is a copy of the notes I wrote before I lectured the class. This was new territory for me but the feedback from my students was very positive. They felt it helped to clarify …
Sentence Recovery
One of the most common things that held students back in their first writing portfolio task was their writing skills. In particular, the inaccurate sentences that were being used. We have gone right back to …
3.4 Writing Portfolio: Task 2
We have come to the end of our study of Gladiator and the second writing portfolio task is now upon the class. The task handout can be found below. Below are some of the scenes …
Gladiator: An Exploration
Below is the Slides presentation we used as a base for our class exploration of Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott. Below are the notes that various pairs from the class wrote while watching Gladiator the …